Latest Posts
PBL Champions Camp: One Tennessee Educator’s Perspective
It is my first full week back to work (with all students and staff masked up) in a new school, working in a new position, and I am t-i-r-e-d. I
Read More
Helping Students to Build Digital Literacy Skills
We have access to billions of resources in less than a second. With all of this power through technology, as educators, we must be able to sort through the information
Read More
Developing Social Awareness Through STEM
The social emotional development of our students is more important as ever. We have navigated challenges and adjustments in education and may continue to do so in the coming year.
Read More
How STEM Can Support Social Emotional Learning
As an educator and STEM advocate, I have always believed that it is important for young people to develop as thinkers, makers, and problem solvers.Those skills are developed quite
Read More
STEM Apps for a Rainy Day
Sometimes a hot summer day gives way to a thunderstorm which may have you stuck inside for hours. While summer should be a time for playing outside and enjoying the
Read More
4 Ways to Help Students Develop SEL Skills
Throughout the past couple of years, it has become increasingly important to focus on the mental health and wellness of our students and ourselves. As educators, it can be a
Read More
Announcing: Partnership with Tennessee STEM Innovation Network
Defined Learning has partnered with Tennessee STEM Innovation Network (TSIN) to offer schools STEM career awareness curriculum through project-based learning tasks for students grades 5-8 at no cost to schools.
Read More
Where Performance Tasks Fit in the PBL Spectrum
Teachers often joke about the jargon in education—I’ve heard it called “edu-speak.” It can be mysterious to non-educators, and confusing and off-putting even to those of us on
Read More
5 Ways PBL Can Benefit ELLs
Summer vacation has just begun, but that doesn’t mean a teacher’s brain isn’t still in school, reflecting on practice in a most challenging year; thinking about how
Read More
Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners in the Classroom
Teaching during the 2020-21 school year was a learning experience for everyone. Quick shifts from in-person to virtual instruction had heads spinning. Navigating classrooms of sometimes invisible students felt like
Read More